Another thing I have noticed is that when/if I power off and on with the 1.2 update (not sleep and wake from sleep, but actually turning off and on) AND I have wifi enabled, I get a notification prompting to share my books with my Nook friends. And I have Nook lending turned off and have unchecked all the books that are possible to lend. This happens EVERY time I do a hard power on and off and wifi is enabled.

A month ago, my Nook automatically installed the 1.2 update. Yesterday, when I turned on WiFi, I saw a black screen with a white bubble saying something like Wait Updating, for an hour or so. Today, with WiFi on, my Nook returned to the Nook Forever screen and, five minutes later, a check of Settings | Device Info | About Your Nook revealed that Software version 1.2.1 had been installed.

On checking, I have noticed nothing different under the 1.2.1 update. What have others noticed?

I think the 1.2.1 update made the text appear less uniform again, just like prior to the 1.2.0 update. Some text look like bold characters when they really shouldn't. This was eliminated to a degree with the 1.2.0 update but now it's back. Grrrrr..